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They say dolphins and whales are among the smartest creatures in the sea. A professor at the prestigous Tokai University seems to think so too. Whales communicate through a process called echolocation, which basically means they emit a sound and listens for the echos for navigation as well as communication between other whales. Professor Tsukasa […] More
Who doesn’t love Engrish? While we don’t see many crazy Kanji phrases used here in the states… well even if we did, not many would even understand them. Luckily for us, Japan and China have a facination with English that gives us an endless supply of fun, and funny attempts. Hope you havn’t forgot the […] More
After almost 25 years of being in existence, the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) is finally changing. When it was first administered in 1984, there were about 7,000 examinees. In 2007, there were around 524,000 global examinees. In 2001, a committee was established to look at the test, and in 2004, work began on revising […] More
While I’m not the biggest fan of BoA, I do like her music from the early part of the 2000’s (Atlantis Princess, Listen to my heart). Yesterday it has been made official that she’s taking her career to America to try and tackle one of the most critical pop industries there is. Her official kickoff […] More
A powerful 7.2 earthquake has hit northern Japan. The eastern coast of Hokkaido was the center of the quake. Earlier a 6.6 earthquake hit eastern Indonesia. Both areas are under tsunami warnings. No immediate details about damage or death have been reported. The last time a quake of this magnitude has hit Japan was in […] More
MeGlobe throws a great party, wish you could of been there! More
Here are the latest set of pictures from what is said to be the official Dragonball trailer. No official word if that is true or not, however you may notice that Piccolo is a weird albino shade of white. Hopefully it’s just the creative use of lighting, and not a story twist where he must […] More
Summer’s over. Everyone has finished their summer vacations. Students are back in class. The cold will be here before you know it. I actually love winter. While it rarely snows here in Florida, it still gets cold. Since I was a child, I have always loved to wear winter clothes. Another reason I like winter […] More
Happy birthday to me! Another year goes by (26 to be exact), another year presents itself. For the first time in my life, I am actually celebrating my birthday away from friends, and without a girlfriend! It’s a bit weird. I haven’t really opened myself up to this new city that I moved to in […] More
I know Americans as a whole can be a bit sheltered as to what’s going on with the world as a whole. Anyone living in America now knows that even though our government isn’t calling this an official recession, it is. However, it’s not just us. There is a worldwide recession… except maybe not in […] More
Two teenagers in New York City have exposed a number of sushi restaurants and seafood markets that were mislabeling fish and other underwater staples. Funnily enough, this story starts out at the dinner table. Kate Stoeckle asked her father one night while at a sushi restaurant, “Could you bar code sushi?” Kate’s father is a […] More
In a similar bit of news to my earlier post on the Chinese fish necklaces, traders in Qingdao have also begun selling live fish inside keychains. Qingdao is the site for the Olympic sailing events for the Beijing 2008 games. On the front of the keychain itself is an unofficial copy of an Olympic mascot. […] More
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